William Howe De Lancey

William Howe De Lancey (1778-26 June 1815) was a Colonel of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars. He was mortally wounded at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

Biography
William Howe De Lancey was born in New York City, New York in 1778 to a family of Huguenot descent, and his family supported King George III during the American Revolutionary War. In 1783, the family was forced to flee to England after their property was confiscated, and De Lancey joined the British Army in 1792. He served in the East Indies during the French Revolutionary Wars, and he fought in Portugal and Spain during the Napoleonic Wars.

During the Hundred Days in 1815, De Lancey was appointed deputy Quartermaster-General of the army in Belgium under the Duke of Wellington. On 18 June 1815, during the Battle of Waterloo, De Lancey was struck in the back by a ricocheting cannonball as he talked with the Duke of Wellington. His skin was uninjured, but his internal injuries proved to be mortal, and he died at a peasant's cottage in Mont-Saint-Jean, Holland on 26 June 1815 at the age of 37.